-The Social Network: People, Places, and Communities, Department of
Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies (CNERS) 17th Annual
Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, May 2017, University of
British Columbia

Jane Garnett (Wadham College, Oxford) History and a sense of place.
Religion in diaspora in East London

Chair: Michael Keith (COMPAS, University of Oxford)

12:15-13:00 Lunch

13:00-15:00 Panel

Claire Dwyer (UCL) Making suburban faith : Negotiating space for
worship in West London

Yannick Fer (CNRS-Paris) 'Why were all these coloured people not
there ?' : Protestant events, socio-spatial inequalities and public
visibility in Paris

Maria-Luisa Caputo (University of Paris 1) Rebuilding a community in a
suburban space: the Jewish community in Saint Brice sous Forêt

Chair: Linda McDowell (St. John's College, University of Oxford)

15:00-15:15 Coffee

15:15-16:00 Concluding remarks and discussion, John Eade
(University of Roehampton)

2.
Participatory action research on housing and homelessness in East London

The return of the slum: participatory action research on housing and
homelessness in East London

Friday, December 2nd, 6.30-9pm

Husk Coffee & Creative Space, 649 Commercial Road, London, E14 7LW

Between October 2015 and May 2016, the Focus E15 campaign took part in
a participatory action research (PAR) project with academics from the
University of Leeds and Sheffield.

This public event will launch the report of the research which
examined people's experiences of housing and displacement in Newham,
looking specifically at the conditions in which people are living and
the response of the council to requests for support.

We invite you to join us to hear and discuss the findings:

6.30pm Arrival for (complimentary) food.
7.00pm Presentation from researchers, discussion from panellists,
questions from the floor.
8.30pm Wrap up

You are invited to a duo of public conversations centred on fat
activism and disability activism organised by Dr Bethan Evans,
University of Liverpool, in collaboration with DaDaFest. The first
'Fat and Crip Power! A Public Conversation' with disability activist
Liz Carr and fat activist Charlotte Cooper will explore the overlaps,
shared experiences and differences between fat and disability. The
second 'Flying while Fat/Disabled' with Stacy Bias and Bethan Evans
includes the launch of a new animation on flying while fat (by Stacy
Bias) based on research part-funded by the University of Liverpool,
and discussion of this research. This event is free. This is a public
event and we encourage anyone to come along who is interested in
finding out more about fat activism or who wants to listen or share
their stories and get involved in the conversation. More information
and booking is available via this link:
http://www.dadafest.co.uk/the-festival/event/fat-activism-a-public-conversation/